Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

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Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

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Nature abhors annihilation.

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True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

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The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

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Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

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History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

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There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

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We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

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Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

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Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.

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The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

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Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

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What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

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These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

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Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

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Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

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For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

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